CVE-2016-1885: Freebsd

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in the amd64_set_ldt function in sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c in FreeBSD 9.3 before p39, 10.1 before p31, and 10.2 before p14 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an i386_set_ldt system call, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 9.3 only; version 10.1 only; version 10.2 only

Published 2016-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.